Reconfiguring the Reservation
Subtitle: The Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780826324085
Subjects: American history; Land rights; Sociology, Social Studies; Nez Perce Indian Reservation; Jicarilla Indian Reservation (N.M.); Control Of Land; Native Americans - Southwest; History - General History; History: American; USA; Land tenure; Native American; History / Native American; Nez Percâe Indian Reservation (Idaho); Modern - 19th Century; History; Indians of North America; Jicarilla Indian Reservation (
Description: "Reconfiguring the Reservation is a story about Indian agency, negotiation, and resistance to an imposed federal policy. Greenwald traces the Nez Perces' and Jicarilla Apaches' experiences with the 1887 General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act. This legislation sought to assimilate Indians into the American mainstream by dividing collectively controlled reservations into individually owned allotments of land.

Once Indians had private property, reformers reasoned, they would practice agriculture and eventually adopt "American" economic and natural rules."--BOOK JACKET.